Set wash-basin



(No Model.)

W. SCOTT.

SET WASH BASIN.

Patented July 30, 1889.

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VILLIAM SCOTT, OF MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SET WASH-BASIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,793, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed March 5, 1889. Serial No. 301,980. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, XVILLIAM SCOTT, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the town of Medford, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Set lVash-Basins, Bath-Tubs, and other like Water-Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is more especially designed for set basins, bath-tubs, and other like water-.

fixtures; but, as will be obvious hereinafter, it is applicable to other waterreceptacles, and

particularly those which in use require from time to time to be charged with and to be emptied of water and also protected against accidental overflow.

This invention in the water-fixtures referred to consists, in substance, first, of an opening and closing valve located within and at the discharge-outlet of the fixture and a lever-arm to act on the under side of said: valve and located in and across the wastelevel thereof, and thence leading upward through the wall of the basin and rising to the height of said overflow-water level, and a waste-water way in communication with said overflow-water outlet.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the invention is illustrated in connection with a set wash bowl or basin.

Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section from front to rear. Figs. 3

and 4 are detail views hereinafter referred to, Fig. 3 being enlarged. Fig. 5 is a sectional view in detail, illustrating a modification, as hereinafter appears.

In the drawings, A represents a set wash bowl or basin having an outlet B, and a waste- Water passage 0 leading from the outlet, and a marble slab D overlapping edges of bowl, all as well known.

E is a valve located within the basin to open and close outlet B and its Water-passage O. This valve is a disk, and in opening and closing it preferably swings at one side E on its seat or support, and again, preferably, without being directly connected thereto, Fig. 2; but it maybe directly connected by a hinge E, Fig. 5.

F is a lever-arm, preferably held on and extendingfrom the under side of valve horizontally across the waste-water way 0, through a lateral or side chamber 0 of said outlet passage 0, and across vertical water-passage G, preferably, as will hereinafter appear, the overflow-passage located at one side of the bowl and in communication, by said lateral chamber 0 with the outlet-water passage C of the bowl.

H is a vertical stein in overflow-passage C. The stem H at its upper end has a head H which fills the bore of the overflow-passage, and has a projecting side pin a engaged with a vertical groove Z) held on the inside wall of the overflow-passage, which, near its upper end, has an intermediate horizontal portion N, Fig. 3, and at upper end of overflow-pas sage is open, all for the stem to be moved in l a direct line within given limits up and down in the overflow-passage, to be rotated and placed at rest on the horizontal portion or ledge 5 and to be taken out and placed in the overflow-passage.

H is a perforated or skeleton disk at the lower end of stem H, and which, when the stem is lowered, abuts on the end of the valvelever arm F and within the overflow-passage, and, depressing it, secures the opening of the valve by swinging the valve on its seat, as has been explained,and holds it open until lifted, on which the valve by gravity closes.

The horizontal ledge 19 for the rest of the valve-operating stem H is to be situated so that the stem is at rest on it when the valve is closed, Fig. 2.

The discharge outlet or passage 0 of the bowl has a horizontal strainer-partition C as usual, but in this instance provided with an IOO elongated perforation d, through which the valve-lever arm F passes and at one end makes abearin g or fulcrum for said arm as it is moved to open the valve, and also as the valve closes, thereby serving to keep the valve always in proper positiona feature of importance when the valve is not directly connected or hinged, Fig. 1.

The valve and its lever-arm F and operating-stem H, arranged and combined with the outlet and overflow passages of the bowl, all as described, secure many advantages-among others, freedom of attachment and detachment and of cleansing the overflow-passage, and simplicity and effectiveness and reliability of operation.

f is a port or passage making communication between overflow-passage G and the upper portion of the bowl and leading upwardly on an incline into the overflow-passage.

The overflow-water out-let f opens at g to the water-chamber of the basin appreciably below the overflow-water level thereof, and thence it leads upward through the wall of the basin to the height, as at h, of said. overflow-waterlevel, all so that with the basin filled withwater to its overflow-level said overflow outlet-port and waste-water way G are thus water trapped and sealed, and floating particles in the water of the basin are prevented from entering said port-all obvious advantages.

There may be one or more overflow-ports f and of the same or unequal areas, all as may be proper or necessary.

The valve E, being located in thebasin, can be removed readily and directly through the basin, and the operating mechanism for the valve, being all in water-ways in open communication with each other and the basin, can

' be washed and cleansed without removal by running water from the basin through them. Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a set wash-basin or other like fixture having outlets at its lower and upper portions an d waste-water ways 0 G leading from each of said outlets, the combination of a side chamber C of said waste-water Way 0, leading from said lower outlet B of the basin, an opening and closing valve E, located within the basin and at its said lower outlet B, a leverarm F, to operate on the under side of said valve and located within and across and extended into said side chamber C of said wastewater way 0, a waste and overflow water way G, connecting upper outlet of the basin and side chamber 0 of said waste-water way 0, and an up and down moving stem or rod H, located in said overflow-way and entered into said side chamber 0 and therein adapted, in

co-operation with said lever-arm, to secure an opening and closing of said valve, substantially as described.

2. In a set wash-basin or other like fixture having outlets at its lower and upper portions and waste-water ways 0 G leading from each of said outlets, the combination of aside chamber C of said waste-water way 0, leading from the lower outlet B of the basin, and opening and closing valve E, located within the basin and at and swinging on one side of said lower outlet B, a lever-arm F, to operate on the under side of said valve and located Within and extended into said side chamber C of said waste-water way 0, and an up'and down moving stem or rod H at its lower end portion entered into said side chamber C and therein adapted, in cooperation with said lever-arm, to secure an opening and closing of said valve, substantially as described.

3. In a set wash-basin or other like fixture having outlets at its lower and upper portions and waste-Water ways 0 G leading from each of said outlets, the combination of a side cham ber C of said waste-water way G, leading from said lower outlet B of the basin, an opening and closing valve E, located Within the basin and at and swinging on one side of said lower outlet B, a lever-arm F, curving in the direction of its length and to operate on the under side of said valve and located within and across and extended into said side chamber C of said waste-water way 0, a stationary partition Q of the waste-water way 0, and having a slotted bearing dfor said lever-arm, and an up and down moving stem or rod H at its lower end portion entered into said side chamber C and therein adapted, in cooperation with said lever-arm, to secure an opening and closing of said valve, substantially as described.

4:. In a set basin or other like fixture having an outlet at its bottom and a waste-water passage in communication with said outlet, the combination of an overflow-water outlet f at and open to the water-chamber of the basin appreciably below the overflow-water level thereof,- and thence leading upward through the wall of the basin and rising to the height of said overflow-water level, and a waste-water way G in communication with said overflow-water outlet f, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM SCOTT.

\Vitnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, HENRY F. lVICKEEVER. 

